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US4661121A US06/713,022 US71302285A US4661121A US 4661121 A US4661121 A US 4661121A US 71302285 A US71302285 A US 71302285A US 4661121 A US4661121 A US 4661121A
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  • Mineral oils containing paraffin wax therein have the characteristic of becoming less fluid as the temperature of the oil decreases. This loss of fluidity is due to the crystallization of the wax into plate-like crystals which eventually form a spongy mass entrapping the oil therein. When pumped these crystals, if they can be moved, block fuel lines and filters.
  • wax crystal modifiers when blended with waxy mineral oils. These compositions modify the size and shape of wax crystals and reduce the adhesive forces between the wax and oil in such a manner as to permit the oil to remain fluid at a lower temperature.
  • United Kingdom Pat. No. 1263152 suggests that the size of the wax crystals may be controlled by using a copolymer having a lower degree of side chain branching.
  • the materials used were polymers made from (i) vinyl acetate and mixed-alcohol fumarate esters with an average of about 12.5 carbon atoms (Polymer A in United Kingdom Pat. No. 1469016), (ii) vinyl acetate and mixed-fumarate esters with an average of about 13.5 carbon atoms (Polymers E in United Kingdom Pat. No. 1469016) and (iii) copolymers of C 12 di-n-alkyl fumarates and C 16 methacrylates or C 16 di-n-alkyl fumarates and C 12 methacrylates all of which were ineffective as additives for distillate fuel.
  • distillate fuels With the increasing diversity in distillate fuels and the need to maximise the yield of this petroleum fraction fuels have emerged which cannot be adequately treated with conventional additives such as ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymers.
  • One way of increasing the yield of distillate fuel is to use more of the Heavy Gas Oil fraction (HGO) in blends with distillate cuts or to cut-deeper by increasing the Final Boiling Point (FBP) of the fuel to for example above 370° C. It is in these cases where the present invention is particularly useful.
  • HGO Heavy Gas Oil fraction
  • FBP Final Boiling Point
  • copolymers of ethylene and vinyl acetate which have found widespread use for improving the flow of the previously widely available distillate fuels have not been found to be effective in the treatment of these fuels described above. Furthermore use of mixtures as illustrated in United Kingdom Pat. No. 1469016 have not been found to be as effective as the additives of the present invention.
  • the cloud point of distillate fuels being the temperature at which the wax begins to crystallise out from the fuel at it cools. This temperature is generally measured using a differential scanning calorimeter. This need is applicable to both the difficult to treat fuels described above and the entire range of distillate fuels which typically boil in the range 120° C. to 500° C.
  • copolymers are effective in controlling the size of the wax crystals forming in these hitherto difficult to treat fuels with a Final Boiling Point (FBP) above 370° C. to allow filterability in both the Cold Filter Plugging Point Test (CFPPT) (to correlate with diesel vehicle operability) and the Programmed Cooling Test (PCT) (to correlate with Heating Oil operation at low temperatures).
  • CFRPPT Cold Filter Plugging Point Test
  • PCT Programmed Cooling Test
  • the present invention therefore provides means for treating distillate petroleum fuel oil boiling in the range 120° C. to 500° C. particularly those fuels having F.B.P.'s at, or in excess of, 370° C. to improve their low temperature flow properties
  • polymers or copolymers containing a vinyl, or fumarate ester containing n-alkyl groups containing an average of from 14 to 18 carbon atoms and no more than 10% (w/w) of said ester containing alkyl groups with fewer than 14 carbon atoms and containing no more than 10% (w/w) of the alkyl groups greater than 18 carbon atoms are extremely effective additives.
  • Copolymers of di-n-alkyl fumarates and vinyl acetate are preferred and we have found that using fumarates made from single alcohols or binary mixtures of alcohols is particularly effective. When mixtures of alcohols are used we prefer to mix the alcohols prior to the esterification step rather than use mixed fumarates each obtained from single alcohols.
  • the average carbon number of the long n-alkyl groups on the copolymer should lie between 14 and 17 for most of such fuels found in Europe whose Final Boiling Points are in the range of 370° C. to 410° C. Such fuels generally have Cloud Points in the range of -5° C. to +10° C. If the Final Boiling Point is increased or the heavy gas oil component of the fuel is increased such as in fuel found in warmer climates, e.g. Africa, India, S.,E. Asia etc. the average carbon number of the said alkyl group can be increased to somewhere between 16 and 18. These latter fuels may have Final Boiling Points in excess of 400° C. and Cloud Points above 10° C.
  • the preferred polymers or copolymers used as the additives of the invention comprise at least 10% (w/w) of a mono or di-n-alkyl ester of a mono-ethylenically unsaturated C 4 to C 8 mono or dicarboxylic acid (or anhydride) in which the average number of carbon atoms in the n-alkyl groups is from 14 to 18.
  • the said mono or di-n-alkyl ester containing no more than 10% (w/w) based on the total alkyl groups of alkyl groups containing less than 14 carbon atoms and no more than 10% (w/w) of alkyl groups containing more than 18 carbon atoms.
  • unsaturated esters are preferably co-polymerized with at least 10% (w/w) of an ethylene-unsaturated ester such as those described in the Coadditives Section hereof, for example vinyl acetate.
  • an ethylene-unsaturated ester such as those described in the Coadditives Section hereof, for example vinyl acetate.
  • Such polymers have a number average molecular weight in the range of 1000 to 100,000, preferably 1000 to 30,000 as measured, for example, by Vapour Phase Osmometry such as by a Mechrolab Vapour Pressure Osmometer.
  • the mono/dicarboxylic acid esters useful for preparing the polymer can be represented by the formula: ##STR1## wherein R 1 and R 2 are hydrogen or a C 1 to C 4 alkyl group, e.g. methyl, R 3 is a C 14 to C 18 (average) CO.O or C 14 to C 18 (average) O.CO, where the chains are n-alkyl groups, and R 4 is hydrogen, R 2 or R 3 .
  • the dicarboxylic acid mono or di-ester monomers may be copolymerised with various amounts, e.g., 0 to 70 mole %, of other unsaturated monomers such as esters.
  • esters include short chain alkyl esters having the formula: ##STR2## where R 5 is hydrogen or a C 1 to C 4 alkyl group, R 6 is ##STR3## where R 8 is a C 1 to C 5 alkyl group branched or unbranched, and R 7 is R 6 to hydrogen.
  • these short chain esters are methacrylates, acrylates, fumarates (and maleates) and vinyl esters. More specific examples include methyl methacrylate, isopropenyl acrylate and isobutyl acrylate.
  • the vinyl esters such as vinyl acetate and vinyl propionate being preferred.
  • Our preferred polymers contain from 40 to 60% (mole/mole) of C 14 to C 18 (average) dialkyl fumarate and 60 to 40% (mole/mole) of vinyl acetate.
  • the ester polymers are generally prepared by polymerising the ester monomers in a solution of a hydrocarbon solvent such as heptane, benzene, cyclohexane, or white oil, at a temperature generally in the range of from 20° C. to 150° C. and usually promoted with a peroxide or azo type catalyst such as benzoyl peroxide or azodiisobutyronitrile under a blanket of an inert gas such as nitrogen or carbon dioxide in order to exclude oxygen.
  • a hydrocarbon solvent such as heptane, benzene, cyclohexane, or white oil
  • a peroxide or azo type catalyst such as benzoyl peroxide or azodiisobutyronitrile
  • an inert gas such as nitrogen or carbon dioxide in order to exclude oxygen.
  • the polymer may be prepared under pressure in an autoclave or by refluxing.
  • the additives of the present invention are particularly effective when used in combination with other additives previously proposed for improving the cold flow properties of distillate fuels generally, but are found to be particularly effective in the type of fuels with which the present invention is concerned.
  • the additives of this invention may be used with ethylene unsaturated ester copolymer flow improvers.
  • the unsaturated monomers which may be copolymerized with ethylene include unsaturated mono and diesters of the general formula: ##STR4## wherein R 10 is hydrogen or methyl; R 9 is a --OOCR 12 group wherein R 12 is hydrogen or a C 1 to C 28 , more usually C 1 to C 17 , and preferably a C 1 to C 8 , straight or branched chain alkyl group; R 9 is a --COOR 12 group wherein R 12 is as previously described but is not hydrogen and R 11 is hydrogen or --COOR 12 as previously defined.
  • the monomer when R 10 and R 11 are hydrogen and R 2 is ##STR5## includes vinyl alcohol esters of C 1 to C 29 , more usually C 1 to C 18 , monocarboxylic acids, and preferably C 2 to C 5 monocarboxylic acids.
  • vinyl esters which may be copolymerised with ethylene include vinyl acetate, vinyl propionate and vinyl isobutyrate, vinyl acetate being preferred. It is also preferred that the copolymers contain from 10 to 40 wt.% of the vinyl ester more preferably from 25 to 35 wt.% vinyl ester. Mixtures of two copolymers such as those described on U.S. Pat. No. 3,961,916 may also be used. These copolymers preferably have a number average molecular weight as measured by vapour phase osmometry (VPO) of 1000 to 6000 preferably 1000 to 4000.
  • VPO vapour phase osmometry
  • the additives of the present invention may also be used in combination with polar compounds, either ionic or nonionic, which have the capability of acting as wax crystal growth inhibitors.
  • Polar nitrogen containing compounds have been found to be especially effective and these are generally the C 30 -C 300 preferably C 50 -C 150 amine salts and/or amides formed by reaction of at least one molar proportion of hydrocarbyl substituted amines with a molar proportion of hydrocarbyl acid having 1-4 carboxylic acid groups or their anhydrides; ester/amides may also be used.
  • These nitrogen compounds are described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,211,534.
  • Suitable amines are long chain C 12 -C 40 primary, secondary, tertiary or quarternary amines or mixtures thereof but shorter chain amines may be used provided the resulting nitrogen compound is oil soluble and therefore they normally contain about 30 to 300 total carbon atoms.
  • the nitrogen compound should also have at least one straight chain C 8 -C 40 alkyl segment.
  • Suitable amines include tetradecyl amine, cocoamine, hydrogenated tallow amine and the like.
  • secondary amines include dioctadecyl amine, methyl-behenyl amine and the like. Amine mixtures are also suitable and many amines derived from natural materials are mixtures.
  • the preferred amine is a secondary hydrogenated tallow amine of the formula HNR 1 R 2 wherein R 1 and R 2 are alkyl groups derived from hydrogenated tallow fat composed of approximately 4% C 14 , 31% C 16 , 59% C 18 .
  • carboxylic acids examples include cyclo-hexane dicarboxylic acid, cyclohexene dicarboxylic acid, cyclopentane dicarboxylic acid and the like. Generally these acids will have about 5-13 carbon atoms in the cyclic moiety.
  • Preferred acids useful in the present invention are benzene dicarboxylic acids such as phthalic acid, or its anhydride which is particularly preferred.
  • the nitrogen containing compound have at least one ammonium salt, amine salt or amide group.
  • the particularly preferred amine compound is that amide-amine salt formed by reacting 1 molar portion of phthalic anhydride with 2 molar portions of di-hydrogenated tallow amine.
  • Another preferred embodiment is the diamide formed by dehydrating this amide-amine salt.
  • the long chain ester copolymers used as additives according to this invention may be used with one or both of the coadditive types mentioned above and may be mixed with either in ratios of 20/1 to 1/20 (w/w), more preferably 10/1 to 1/10 (w/w), most preferably 4/1 to 1/4.
  • a ternary mixture may also be used in the ratio of long chain ester to coadditive 1 to coadditive 2 of x/y/z respectively where x, y and z may lie in the range of 1 to 20 but more preferably in the range of 1 to 10 and most preferably in the range of 1 to 4.
  • the additive systems of the present invention may conveniently be supplied as concentrates in oil for incorporation into the bulk distillate fuel. These concentrates may also contain other additives as required. These concentrates preferably contain from 3 to 80 wt.%, more preferably 5 to 70 wt.%, most preferably 10 to 60 wt.% of the additives preferably in solution in oil. Such concentrates are also within the scope of the present invention.
  • the additives of the present invention are especially useful for treating fuels having a final boiling point above 370° C. and are generally used in an amount from 0.0001 to 5 more preferably 0.001 to 2 wt.% additive based on the fuel.
  • the present invention is illustrated by the following Examples in which the effectiveness of the additives of the present invention as pour point depressants and filterability improvers were compared with other additives in the following tests.
  • CFPPT Cold Filter Plugging Point Test
  • a 40 ml sample of the oil to be tested is cooled in a bath which is maintained at about -34° C. to give non-linear cooling at about 1° C./min.
  • Periodically at each one degree Centigrade drop in temperature starting from at least 2° C. above the cloud point) the cooled oil is tested for its ability to flow through a fine screen in a prescribed time period using a test device which is a pipette to whose lower end is attached an inverted funnel which is positioned below the surface of the oil to be tested. Stretched across the mouth of the funnel is a 350 mesh screen having an area defined by a 12 millimeter diameter.
  • the periodic tests are each initiated by applying a vacuum to the upper end of the pipette whereby oil is drawn through the screen up into the pipette to a mark indicating 20 ml of oil. After each successful passage the oil is returned immediately to the CFPP tube.
  • the test is repeated with each one degree drop in temperature until the oil fails to fill the pipette within 60 seconds. This temperature is reported as the CFPP temperature.
  • the difference between the CFPP of an additive free fuel and of the same fuel containing additive is reported as the CFPP depression by the additive. A more effective additive flow improver gives a greater CFPP depression at the same concentration of additive.
  • PCT test is a slow cooling test designed to correlate with the pumping of a stored heating oil.
  • the cold flow properties of the described fuels containing the additives were determined by the PCT test as follows. 300 ml of a fuel are cooled linearly at 1° C./hour to the test temperature and the temperature then held constant. After 2 hours at the test temperature, approximately 20 ml of the surface layer is removed by suction to prevent the test being influenced by the abnormally large wax crystals which tend to form on the oil/air interface during cooling. Wax which has settled in the bottle is dispersed by gentle stirring, then a CFPPT filter assembly is inserted.
  • the tap is opened to apply a vacuum of 500 mm of mercury, and closed when 200 ml of fuel have passed through the filter into the graduated receiver, A PASS is recorded if the 200 ml are collected within ten seconds through a given mesh size or a FAIL if the flow rate is too slow indicating that the filter has become blocked.
  • CFPPT filter assemblies with filter screens to 20, 30, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, 150, 200, 250 and 350 mesh number are used to determine the finest mesh (largest mesh number) the fuel will pass.
  • the cloud point of distillate fuels was determined by the standard Cloud Point Test (IP-219 or ASTM-D 2500) and the Wax Appearance Temperature estimated by measuring against a reference sample of Kerosene but without correcting for thermal lag by differential scanning calorimetry using a Mettler TA 2000B differential scanning calorimeter.
  • IP-219 or ASTM-D 2500 the standard Cloud Point Test
  • Wax Appearance Temperature estimated by measuring against a reference sample of Kerosene but without correcting for thermal lag by differential scanning calorimetry using a Mettler TA 2000B differential scanning calorimeter.
  • a 25 microliter sample of the fuel is cooled from a temperature at least 10° C. above the expected cloud point at a cooling rate of 2° C. per minute and the cloud point of the fuel is estimated as the wax appearance temperature as indicated by the differential scanning calorimeter plus 6° C.
  • the fuels used in these examples were:
  • Two fumarate-vinyl acetate copolymers were made from fumarate esters esterified with an alcohol mixture containing a range of chain lengths.
  • the alcohols were first mixed esterified with fumaric acid and polymerised with vinyl acetate (1/1 molar ratio) to give products similar to that of Polymer A of United Kingdom Pat. No. 1469016.
  • Values are in %(w/w) of alcohols containing the n-alkyl chains in the mixture.
  • the average carbon numbers are 12.8 and 12.6 respectively.
  • a fumarate-vinyl acetate copolymer was made by first making a series of fumarates. The set of fumarates were then mixed prior to polymerization with vinyl acetate in a ratio of 5/2 (w/w) in a similar manner to Example Polymer E in UK Pat. No. 1469016 to give Polymer D as follows.
  • the average carbon number of Polymer D is 13.9.
  • Ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymers with the following properties were used as co-additives.
  • Compound F was prepared by mixing one molar proportion of phthalic anhydride with two molar proportions of di-hydrogenated tallow amine at 60° C.
  • the dialkyl-ammonium salts of 2-N,N dialkylamido benzoate is formed.
  • the PCT Values are the mesh number passed at -9° C., the higher the number the better the pass.
  • Wax Appearance Temperature -9.4° C.

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